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POSTVILLE, Iowa — Scores of Somali immigrants are taking jobs at the nation’s largest kosher meatpacking plant, replacing Latino workers arrested in a huge immigration raid and forcing a remote Iowa town to make another cultural shift.
Before the May 12 raid at Agriprocessors, hundreds of Mexican and Guatemalan immigrants maintained a vibrant community in Postville, a largely white community of 2,200 people in northeast Iowa. Now the haunts once occupied by Latinos are being filled by about 150 Somali men.
They have “raised some eyebrows, which is pretty normal when you get somebody different in town,” Postville Mayor Robert Penrod said. “They’ve been keeping to themselves.”
